Jesse Waters

TSA lines are finally getting back to normal after TSA agents got their first paycheck in more than 40 days today, thanks to President Trump.

You believe that he is violating...

the law in this interpretation that the White House says they have?

Well, it's not that I believe it.

It's that I know it.

So they shouldn't be paid?

But any American that went through fourth grade civics, no, they should be paid.

They should have never been held hostage.

He could have told Johnson, make the deal.

But he is the one who actually did take action, not the Congress.

They should get paid.

But also it's kind of written into the Constitution that you can't use the pay of representatives as a leverage point on how to get policy done.

All of it.

Donald Trump admitting that he could have paid TSA agents all along is an enormous own goal.

There was a Senate passed bill to fund the TSA that did not include any of the ICE reforms that Democrats were after.

It passed 100 to zero over voice vote.

And then Trump and Mike Johnson decided to blow the thing up so that they could continue this.

Even people like Mike Lee said,

who's out there, you know, going on about the SAVE Act all the time and directing you to page 12, line 22 or whatever for some esoteric loophole that he thinks saves the bill, voted to pay the TSA agents.

It's completely on the Republicans at this point, and everybody knows it.